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6 Responses to “CBC’s Intelligence a landmark show in its portrayal of positive fatherhood”

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   rastus Says:
   November 21st, 2006 at 6:53 pm

   Two other shows on US networks are also showing positive images of fatherhood, albeit in cases where the mother simply isn’t there.

   One is Shark, with James Woods as a former defender of all manner of criminal slimeball, now turned prosecutor. His daughter has come to live with him because she and her mother could not get along.

   The other is Eureka, a SciFi channel fill-in that will hopefully become a regular feature. The father in this show is a former federal marshall who has taken over the job of sheriff in a town specially built by the government as a hidden research center for advanced weaponry. His daughter, a seriously rebellious type, has come to live with Dad because Mom can’t control her.

   Neither portrays the mother as a bad parent, but in both shows the father is, refreshingly, presented as a wise, caring and understanding guy who also happens to understand the meaning of discipline and self-control, and they convey those lessons to their daughters.

   It may not be a movement yet, but it’s certainly looking like the beginning of a trend.

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   DcFather Says:
   November 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 am

   The buffoon, incompetent, abusive, and uncaring father portrayals have all been so overdone that they have nowhere else to go with fathers except to portray them as decent, albeit oterwise as evil sinister criminals. While I’m not surprised that there has been little outrage, it amazes me that people haven’t become bored to death with the no-good dad routine. This may be the start of a trend to provide something a little different, but I doubt they’ll be producing content that reflects the way things actualy work in the real world of so-called family law anytime soon.

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   NationalVoice Says:
   November 22nd, 2006 at 10:19 am

   You guys missed it. This is typical feminist claptrap. Remember, the only men who are portrayed as good guys are government employees. Prosecuter and Sheriff in this case. That is because the feminazis want the state to presented as the father of the family instead of real men.

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   rastus Says:
   November 22nd, 2006 at 6:40 pm

   Sorry NV, but even as anti-statist as I am, I think your take is just a bit off base. Remember, MOST television dramas are about government employees in one form or another. Cops all work for the government. So do prosecutors. Hell, even regular lawyers are members of the Bar, which is an arm of the court, which is part of the government. Only the doctors could be seen as privately employed, but even there, what with their income being so dependent on Medicare and other government programs, their separation from government is minimal. Given the relatively few shows, other than sitcoms, that actually deal with private citizens, it would be hard to find a place where a good father could be portrayed who isn’t a government employee. If you’re going to complain about too great a state presence in TV, I should think your complaint would have to be a whole lot wider than just the fathers portrayed.

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   amfortas Says:
   November 22nd, 2006 at 7:01 pm

   I admire the optimism. But looking for behavioural evidence of sound fathering from a strip club owner is really scraping the barrel. This portrays men in a good light? Just how exactly? I have seen Tony Soprano giving the same treatment to those spoiled rotten slime bags of kids he has and he is a certifiable psychopath lunatic. At least there is no pretence that he is a good father, just a looney thug making his way through the world with damage everywhere he treads. This show’s title “Intelligence”. This is a parody, yes?

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   John Dias Says:
   November 29th, 2006 at 1:08 am

   I’m glad that single fathers are starting to be portrayed better than they have been. But looking at it from a child’s perspective, it must be painful not to have both parents involved in the child’s life on a daily basis. What I want to see is programs that depict families that are healthy, stable, loving, and respectful to both parents, not just the mother. Whenever you see intact families on TV, the father is the butt of jokes, sarcasm, “lighten up dad” humor, and so on. I’m sick to death of it.

   I know many men on MND are absolutely convinced that the intact family is an illusory pipe dream, and that eternal bachelorhood is the only rational course for self-respecting men. Sadly this has become true for too many would-be husbands and fathers. But I do know that children who are born and raised by parents that are absolutely committed to them, daily involved with them, “there” in every sense of the word — those children fare better in life on many levels.

   I wish intact families with respected and honorable men were more often shown. Now THAT would be a milestone.

   John Dias
   Founder, DontMakeHerMad.com

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